Re: Cygwin 2.6.0: unreadable UTF-8 in Windows console

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Oct  1 05:13, Ivan Vanyushkin wrote:
> Something has changed in version 2.6.0, and now UTF-8 text can't be displayed in Windows console (cmd).
> 
> 1. Create a file "test.txt" with non-ASCII text in UTF-8 encoding.
> 2. Run "cmd".
> 3. Run:
> 
> C:\Cygwin\bin\cat test.txt
> ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ 8000 ▒▒. ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒.
> 
> Non-ASCII text is not readable. Older Cygwin 2.5.2 has no such issue.
> 
> C:\Cygwin\bin\uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 PCName 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 14:32 x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> C:\Cygwin\bin\locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> Same issue with any other commands like "grep", or with utilities built and run under Cygwin 2.6.0.
> Same issue in other Windows consoles, like ConEmu or FAR Manager.
> If I change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 (run: "chcp 65001"), file can be correctly displayed natively
> (run: "type test.txt"), but Cygwin "cat" still has the same issue.
> 
> How should I display UTF-8 now?

I applied a patch to fix this regression and uploaded a developer
snapshot with this change to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Please test.  Just exchanging the Cygwin DLL is sufficient, no need to
install the entire package.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat

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